PopEcol Documents
Guides and other documents for members of the Population Ecology Research Group.
Guides for group members.
| Document | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Welcome to PopEcol! | The welcome package for new members: Slack, Zoom, admin, working hours, meetings, the calendar and group life. |
| A guide for updating popecol.org | How to get something changed on popecol.org: ask in the #website channel on Slack, or edit it yourself on GitHub. |
| Tips on writing a thesis | What goes into each part of an MSc thesis, and how to write, revise and polish it. |
| Using AI in PopEcol | How we use AI in our research: analysis, writing, partners’ data, training, and what to focus on as scientists. |
| Academic funding from PhD to professorship | Funding opportunities in Switzerland for each career stage, from PhD to professorship, and where to look for third-party funding. |
| Field guide to generalized linear models | Generalized linear models in R, step by step, with one mock sociable-weaver dataset. For the Kalahari Field Course. |
| Field guide to linear mixed-effects models | Mixed-effects models in R, for observations that are not independent. For the Kalahari Field Course. |
| Environmental data for a field site | How to download snow, climate and vegetation data for a field site (SPASS, SLF, MeteoSwiss, ERA5-Land, MODIS). |
| A guide for building the SUMA website | Building a project website like popecol.org with Quarto, GitHub and Claude Code, and keeping its data on our server. |
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